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Invest Europe 40th Anniversary Interview: Alain Godard, European Investment Bank (EIB)

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“The industry is providing an immense contribution to innovation. If you look at all sectors, most of the innovations today come from startups.”

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I think the industry is providing today an immense contribution to the Innovation if you look at all sectors coming from the health for example to the car industry you see that most of the innovations come from today from startups and basically these startups provide the innovation to these industries and make a huge difference as compared to more traditional funding.

I think the the role of the industry is to provide alternative source of financing to the startups we are in a world where enterprises the small ones require Capital Banks do not provide Capital so the fundamental role of the VC Market Market in Europe and the rest of the world is precisely to provide this Capital to Enterprises the industry in Europe in particular can improve by providing support to what we call scaleup companies though these startups who have grown in Europe who are able to be champions tomorrow but are not able to get the required financing in Europe and this is what it is about I mean the idea is obviously to support this company so that ultimately we have a complete market in in Europe with a quotation Center.

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Invest Europe 40th Anniversary Interview: Alain Godard, European Investment Bank (EIB)

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